a select list of resources available on the Internet and World Wide Web JCU Library Resources
Library and Computing Services | Catalogue (Tropicat) | Guides (includes Abbreviations List) | Databases (General information) | Indexing/Abstracting Databases | Full text databases | Referencing
General Law Resources
Legislation and related material
Bills & Explanatory Memoranda | Acts & Subordinate Legislation | Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)
Courts and Tribunals
Commonwealth Courts | State Courts | | Other jurisdictions
Law Reform Agencies
Government & Professional Organisations & Associations
Queensland Organisations | Australian Organisations
Law Resources (Specialised)
Constitutional Law | Criminal Law and Criminology | Family Law | Human Rights Law | Industrial Law | International Law | Administrative Law
JCU Library Resources
- Library and Computing Services
Catalogue
- Tropicat - JCU's library catalogue
Guides
- Abbreviations for Law Students
- Law Guide (Brief version)
- Finding Acts of Parliament (Commonwealth) in JCU Library
- Finding Acts of Parliament (Queensland) in JCU Library
- Locating Cases in the Australian Digest
Legal databases guides
- Lawbook Online
- Lexis
- Westlaw Australia
Databases - General Information
- Electronic Databases - a listing of all databases available through JCU
- How To Guides - read them online or print out for help on how to use internet resources better
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Indexing/Abstracting Databases
- Informit Informit hosts a number of databases useful for law-related queries, including AGIS (Attorney General's Information Service), CINCH (from the Australian Institute of Criminology), APA-FT (Australian Public Affairs Full Text), AFPD (Australian Federal Police Digest), and SNIPER (Searchable Networked Intellectual Property Electronic Resource).
- Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (Lexis) (Click on the link to Secondary Legal,then select Annotations and Indexes). Indexes articles published in more than 500 US and Commonwealth legal journals, yearbooks, university publications, law reviews, and government publications. Indexing is from 1978 onwards. Citations only.
- XSearch (Cross Search) Allows you to search up to ten databases at once, and connect to the full text of journal articles, where available.
Full text databases
- CCH Library Provides access to an electronic database of books, journals and other information published by CCH. The University subscribes to many publications in the CCH Tax, Corporations, Family, Torts and Conveyancing Law Collections including titles such as Australian Company Law Cases and Australian Master Tax Guide.
- Lawbook Online A database of Law Book Company publications. JCU subscribes to the case law research tool FirstPoint, the legal encyclopaedia The Laws of Australia and to ASIC Corporate Investigations and Hearings. as well as a collection of law journals.
- LexisNexis AU Provides access to electronic legal publications subscribed by the University. Currently these are: Carter's Criminal Law of Queensland, New South Wales Law Reports (1971+), and Queensland Reports (1980+). Note: Additional (Butterworths) Australian publications are available on Lexis. Follow the link to Legal (excluding US) and then to Australia.
- LexisNexis Provides full text primary legal materials from many jurisdictions including the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Community, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Secondary sources, including journals, law reviews and indexes are also available.
- Westlaw Australia Provides full-text access to Australian primary legal materials - case law, statutes and reports including Commonwealth Law Reports, Federal Court Reports, Federal Law Reports, Australian Tax Reports, Australian Criminal Reports, Local Government and Environment Reports of Australia and unreported judgments from a number of jurisdictions.
Referencing
- Australian Guide to Legal Citation This is the citation style recommended to JCU law students. Paper copies are held in Townsville and Cairns at 340.072 AUS (Reserve)
- Interpreting references
- Referencing Styles
Law resources (General)
Australia
- AustLII Australasian Legal Information Institute Excellent coverage of Australian legal material, particularly primary sources.
- Australian Law on the Internet From the National Library of Australia. Includes useful guidesto Australian law
- Australian Law Online This is the official gateway to the Commonwealth Attorney General's Department
- Update to Researching Australian Law By Nicholas Pengelly
- ComLaw Part of Australian Law Online. Commonwealth legislation, including the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI). "From 1 January 2005 all new primary and subordinate legislation that is made will be published on ComLaw/FRLI as relevant, not to SCALEplus. However, SCALEplus will continue to be available to users until all relevant material, including historical material, is migrated to ComLaw."
- SCALEplus From January 2005 new Commonwealth legislation will be made available on ComLaw and all SCALEplus resources will gradually be migrated to ComLaw
- Weblaw A subject index to internet resources for Australian legal researchers. This is a cooperative project maintained by a number of Australian law libraries.
United Kingdom
- BAILLI (British and Irish Legal Information Institute "Access to Freely Available British and Irish Public Legal Information".
- LAWLINKS: Legal Information on the Internet An annotated list of web sites compiled by Sarah Carter of the Templeman Library, University of Kent. Good for UK and European material.
United States
- LII Legal Information Institute From Cornell University. Excellent coverage of U.S. primary and secondary material, many useful links to other sites.
- FindLaw US and world law.
- Guide to Law Online From the Library of Congress
- WWW Virtual Library - Law
Legislation and related material
- Bills and EM 1996+ (ComLaw)
- Parliament of Australia: Bills Click on the link to Current Bills to access text, explanatory memoranda and second reading speeches of bills currently before Parliament. Click on the link to Old Bills to access this information for bills 1997-
- Index to Explanatory Memoranda 1901- 1982 Indexes EMs associated with Commonwealth legislation. Produced by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library.
- Bills introduced to Parliament Queensland bills and explanatory notes 1992-. From the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel
- Commonwealth of Australia Consolidated Acts (From AustLII)
- Commonwealth of Australia Numbered Acts (From AustLII)
- Commonwealth of Australia Consolidated Regulations (From AustLII)
- ComLaw (Commonwealth Law)
- Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI) Authorised versions of legislative instruments and compilations
- ACT Legislation Register
- Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts (AustLII)
- Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts (AustLII)
- Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Regulations (AustLII)
- Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations (AustLII)
- New South Wales Legislation (From the NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office)
- New South Wales Consolidated Acts> (AustLII)
- New South Wales Consolidated Regulations (AustLII)
- Current Northern Territory Legislation Database (From the Department of the Chief Minister)
- Northern Territory Consolidated Acts (AustLII)
- Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations (AustLII)
- Acts, SL as in force From the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
- Queensland Consolidated Acts (AustLII)
- Acts as passed (From the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel. 1991+)
- Subordinate Legislation as made (From the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel. 1991+)
- Queensland Consolidated Regulations (AustLII)
- Queensland Local Laws Database From the Department of Local Government, Planning, Sport & Recreation
- South Australian Legislation
- South Australian Consolidated Acts (AustLII)
- South Australian Consolidated Regulations (AustLII)
TAS
- Tasmanian Legislation: Tasmania's Consolidated Legislaton Online
- Tasmanian Consolidated Acts (AustLII)
- Tasmanian Consolidated Regulations (AustLII)
VIC
- Victorian Law Today Library
- Victorian Consolidated Acts (AustLII)
- Victorian Consolidated Regulations (AustLII)
WA
- Western Australian Legislation
- Western Australian Consolidated Acts (AustLII)
- Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (AustLII)
Legislation from other jurisdictions
- CanLII: Canadian Legal Information Institute Provides links to Canadian federal and provincial legislation
- Canada Laws (From the Department of Justice Canada)
- Statutes of New Zealand
- The UK Statute Law DatabaseThe official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom made available online.
- United Kingdom Legislation (From HMSO. Public general acts as passed from 1988)
- BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute)( Includes unconsolidated UK acts from 1988 and legislation from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.)
- United States Code (From the Office of Law Revision Counsel)
- United States Code (From the Legal Information Institute, Cornell University)
- US State Constitutions, Statutes and Related Legislative Information (From the Legal Information Institute, Cornell University)
Bills & Explanatory Memoranda
Acts & Subordinate Legislation
Australia (Commonwealth) Legislation
Australian State and Territory Legislation
ACTNSW
NT
QLD
SA
- Parliament of Australia: Hansard
- Parliament of New South Wales Hansard & Papers
- Northern Territory Legislative Assembly Hansard & Legislation
- Queensland Parliament: Hansard
- Parliament of South Australia: Hansard
- Parliament of Tasmania
- Parliament of Victoria: Hansard
- Parliament of Western Australia
- Legislative Assembly for the ACT. Hansard
- Northern Territory Legislative Assembly Hansard and Legislation
Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)
Courts & Tribunals
Note:- Judgments in a number of Australian and overseas courts are also available through the Library's full text subscription databases- Family Court of Australia Cases From AustLII. Decisions from 1988+ as selected by the court.
- Family Court of Australia The Court's homepage.
- Federal Court of Australia Cases From AustLII. Decisions from 1977+ as selected by the court. Includes a link to a separate database of full court decisions.
- Federal Court of Australia The Court's homepage.
- Federal Magistrates Court of Australia Decisions Decisions from 2000+ as selected by the Court
- Federal Magistrates Court of Australia: Family Law Decisions Decisions from 2000+ as selected by the Court
- Federal Magistrates Court of Australia The Court's homepage
- High Court of Australia From AustLII. Decisions from 1903+
- High Court of Australia Transcripts Transcript of all matters heard from 1 January 1995
- High Court of Australia The Court's homepage. Includes information about the court, court calendar and texts of recent speeches by High Court judges.
- High Court Bulletins Bulletins include information on judgments reserved and cases granted or refused leave to appeal to the High Court
- High Court Review Case notes on selected cases granted leave to appeal to the High Court. From Bond University Law School
- Industrial Relations Court of Australia Decisions from 1994+ as provided by the Court.
- Industrial Relations Court of Australia
Commonwealth Courts
- Supreme Court of the ACT Decisions from 1986+ as selected by the Court
- Supreme Court of the ACT The Court's homepage
- Land & Environment Court of NSW Decisions from 1988+ as selected by the Court
- NSW Land & Environment Court The Court's homepage
- Supreme Court of NSW Decisions from 1995 as selected by the Court
- New South Wales Supreme Court The Court's homepage
- Superior Courts of NSW pre 1900 Decisions of the Supreme Court of New South Wales handed down prior to 1900, selected and edited by Bruce Kercher
- Northern Territory Supreme Court Decisions from 1986+ as selected by the Court
- Land Court of Queensland Decisions from 1985+
- Land Court of Queensland The Court's homepage
- Planning and Environment Court (Judgments)
- Queensland District Court Decisions from 2000+ as selected by the Court
- About the Courts : District Court (Qld)
- Supreme Court of Queensland Decisions from 1994+ as selected by the Court
- Supreme Court of Queensland: Court of Appeal Decisions from 2000+
- Supreme Court of Queensland: Court of Appeal Decisions from 1994+ as selected by the Court
- About the Courts: Supreme Court (Qld)
- Queensland Courts Information on the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, District and Magistrates courts, including some rules and practice directions. Also provides links to the full text in .pdf of Queensland judgments from January 2000+
- South Australia Supreme Court Decisions from 1989 as selected by the Court
- Supreme Court (SA) Information about the Court from the Courts Administration Authority
- Supreme Court of Tasmania Decisions from 1987+ as selected by the Court
- Supreme Court of Tasmania The Court's homepage
- Supreme Court of Victoria Decisions from 1998+ as selected by the Court
- Supreme Court of Victoria: Court of Appeal Decisions from July 1998+ as selected by the Court
- Supreme Court of Victoria: Court of Appeal Decisions from June 1997 to July 1998
- Supreme Court of Victoria The Court's homepage
- Supreme Court of Western Australia Decisions from 1999+ as selected by the Court
- Supreme Court of Western Australia: Court of Appeal Decisions from 1999+ as selected by the Court
- Supreme Court of Western Australia The Court's homepage
State Courts
ACTNSW
NT
QLD
SA
TAS
VIC
WA
- CanLII: Canadian Legal Information Institute Provides links to Canadian federal and provincial courts
- Supreme Court of Canada Decisions from 1983+
- BAILII: British and Irish Legal Information Institute Judgments from various courts in the United Kingdom
- Her Majesty's Courts Service Judgments database Selected cases from 1996 onwards
- House of Lords Judgments Judgments from November 1996
- Privy Council Decisions All decisions from 1996+ and selected historical decisions
- United States Supreme Court FindLaw's searchable database of US Supreme Court decisions from 1893
- LII Supreme Court Collection
- WashLaw: Legal Resources on the Web From Washburn University School of Law. Provides links to US state and federal courts
- Court of Appeal of New Zealand Decisions from 1998+ as selected by the Court
- New Zealand Courts
- Australian Law Reform Commission Provides access to the full text of ALRC publications. Also provides links and/or contact details for many Australian and overseas law reform agencies
- Administrative Review Council
- Copyright Law Review Committee
- Family Law Council
- New South Wales Law Reform Commission
- Northern Territory Law Reform Committee
- Queensland Law Reform Commission
- Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission
- Queensland Legal, Constitutional & Administrative Review Committee
- Tasmania Law Reform Institute
- Victorian Law Reform Commission
- Law Reform Commission of Western Australia
- International Centre for Criminal Law Reform & Criminal Justice Policy
- Law Commission of Canada
- Law Commission (England & Wales)
- Law Commission (New Zealand)
- South African Law Reform Commission
- Uniform Law Conference of Canada
Other Jurisdictions
Law Reform Agencies
Australia
Overseas Law Reform Agencies
Government & Professional Organisations & Associations
- Bar Association of Queensland Includes 2004 Barristers Rule
- Caxton Legal Centre
- Crime & Misconduct Commission
- Department of Justice & Attorney General
- Legal Aid Queensland
- Legal Services Commission
- Office of Fair Trading
- Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
- Queensland Courts
- Queensland Law Reform Commission
- Queensland Law Society
- Queensland Law Society Offices Contact details for regional branches of the society
- Queensland Legal, Constitutional & Administrative Review Committee
- Queensland Ombudsman
- Queensland Parliament
Queensland Organisations
- Attorney General's Department (Cth)
- Australian Competition & Consumer Commission
- Australian Institute of Administrative Law
- Australian Institute of Judicial Administration
- Australian Law Reform Commission
- Australian Law Students' Association
- Australian Securities & Investments Commission
- Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions
- Commonwealth Ombudsman
- Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia
- Law Council of Australia
- Parliament of Australia
Australian Organisations
Law Resources (Specialised)
- Australia Act 1986 (Cth)
- Documenting a Democracy: Australia's Story 'This website tells the story of Australia through the documents which give our national, state and territory governments the right to govern.' Includes Commonwealth Of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (UK), Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 (Cth), Judiciary Act 1903 (Cth) Australia Act 1986 (Cth),Constitution Act 1867 (Qld), Constitution Act Amendment Act 1922 (Qld) and Australian Courts Act 1828 (UK).
- Constitution Finder
- International Constitutional Law Links to constitutional and related information of many nations
- Web Law- Constitutional Law Weblaw is a co-operative subject index to internet resources for Australian legal researchers. This excellent site includes sections on constitutional history, implied rights in the constitution and constitutional law study notes
- WorldLII Catalog: Constitutional Law>
Constitutional Law
- Australian Institute of Criminology Includes full text of many AIC publications including Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice
- Criminal Code Act 1899 (Qld)
- Carter's Criminal Law of Queensland Select LexisNexis AU
- Crime and Misconduct Commission (Qld)
- Institute of Criminology 'A centre of the University of Sydney dedicated to public education on criminal justice issues'
- Weblaw- Criminology Weblaw is a co-operative subject index to internet resources for Australian legal researchers.
Criminal Law & Criminology
- Australian Family Law Library CCH subscription database available to JCU students.
- Australian Law Online: Family and Relationships
- Australian Institute of Family Studies
- Child Support Agency
- Family Law Section Law Council of Australia
- Family Court of Australia
- Family Court of Australia Cases Decisions from 1988+ as selected by the Court
- Family Law Council
- Weblaw- Family Law This excellent site is part of Weblaw,a co-operative subject index to internet resources for Australian legal researchers.
- WorldLII Catalog: Australia Family Law
Family Law
- Australian Human Rights Centre The Australian Human Rights Centre is a Research Institute based in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales.
- Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission Decisions Decisions from 1985+ as selected by the Commission
- European Court of Human Rights
- Human Rights Treaties Text of conventions on human rights from the Multilaterals Project, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Includes International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights and Convention on the Rights of the Child
- University of Minnesota Human rights Library
- Weblaw- Human Rights This excellent site is part of Weblaw, a co-operative subject index to web resources for Australian legal researchers.
- WorldLII Catalog: Human Rights
Human Rights Law
- Australian Industrial Relations Commission
- Industrial Relations Commission of Australia Decisions from 1983+ as selected by the Commission
- International Labour Organization
- Queensland Department of Employment and Industrial Relations
- Weblaw- Industrial Law Provides links to a range of resources for industrial law. Part of Weblaw, a co-operative subject index to internet resources for Australian legal researchers.
- WorkCover Queensland
- Workplace Relations Law Library From AustLII
Industrial Law
- The ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law From the American Society for International Law
- Australian Treaties Library
- International Court of Justice
- Multilaterals Project The Multilaterals Project is an ongoing project at the Fletcher School of Law &Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts to make available the texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments.
- Official Documents of the United Nations
- United Nations
- Weblaw- International Law Provides links to a range of resources for international law. Part of Weblaw, a co-operative subject index to internet resources for Australian legal researchers.
- WorldLII Catalog Public International Law
International Law
- Administrative Review Council
- Australian Institute of Administrative Law
- Adminstrative Appeals Tribunal
- Federal Court of Australia
- Weblaw- Administrative Law Provides links to a range of resources for administrative law. Part of Weblaw, a co-operative subject index to internet resources for Australian legal researchers.
- WorldLII Catalog Administrative Law
Administrative Law
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